What is recorded here

Standing stone in Cloontreem is a small NE-SW stone in rough pasture above the southwest coast, facing Castletownbere, Berehaven Harbour and the Miskish Mountains. It rises less than a metre from the bog, irregular and broken on one face, like a mark left behind rather than a monument built to be admired. People may have set it where the land could be read at a glance, or it may have simply survived the taking-away that removed everything else.

In rough pasture, on a terrace on a SW-facing hillslope with a view S-W to Castletownbere and Berehaven Harbour and the Miskish Mountains. This standing stone (0.6m x 0.3m; H 0.9m), which protrudes above the surface of the bog, is irregular in plan and is orientated NE-SW. The upper portion of the NW face of the stone has broken off. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Probably dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ritual or territorial significance, possibly aligning with landscape features visible to the south-west. Local folklore sometimes associates such stones with ancient watchposts or memorials.

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